[tdwg-ncd] RE: Terminology version 2
Butler, Carol
ButlerCR at si.edu
Tue Jul 17 21:48:57 CEST 2007
Hi Everyone,
As I didn't hear disagreement with the elements <majorDiscipline>, <broadTaxa> and the July 11 revisions to <collectionType>, I think we've essentially come to a decision on those elements.
If we still have decisions to make on the acceptable terms to be used in the elements, let's aim to get that done by July 23. Neil has forwarded a list of Institution terms he found, and while there is some overlap there are terms that we should include. I will clip out the section of the spreadsheet for that element and send you a revision of acceptable terms for <institutionType> only.
Cheers
Carol
-----Original Message-----
From: Ruud Altenburg [mailto:ruud at eti.uva.nl]
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:52 AM
To: Markus Döring
Cc: Neil Thomson; Constance Rinaldo; Butler, Carol; Guenter.Waibel at rlg.org; Barbara Mathe; Doug Holland; Natural Collections Descriptions mailing list; Wouter Addink
Subject: Re: Terminology version 2
Hallo all,
> we havent finally decided yet I believe. Or have we?
As the latest schema involved changes to the properties themselves,
preferably I would like to see these determined ASAP. The terms can
be added later, that's no problem.
> if you use the ISO codes that is kind of language independant I
> would say. And wouldnt it be enough to use ISO 639-1 only? do we
> really need dialects, british vs american english etc?
For languages possibly that would be the case, although probably not
everybody would associate e.g. 'deu' with German ;) But even if we
stick to 'just' 185 languages, it is impossible to translate the
terminology Excel document to all those languages...
And if I may add another question: how should I interpret the
TaxonCoverageStrength, CommonNameCoverageStrength, etc properties
exactly? In the schema as displayed by Oxygen they seem completely
synonymous with TaxonCoverage, CommonNameCoverage, etc.
Regards,
Ruud
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